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<span class="summary">Retain topics and replies for deleted users</span>
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<a href="/query?status=!closed&component=Component+-+Users">Component - Users</a>
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When a user account is deleted an option to delete or retain the users topics and replies should be available to keep the original context of a topic and replies.<br />
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<em>In <a class="closed ticket" href="/ticket/2347" title="#2347: defect (bug): phpBB importer conflates all deleted users as single user "anonymous" (closed: fixed)">#2347</a> support was added for imported phpBB topics and replies to support posts where the original author had been deleted by assigning the original user name to <code>_bbp_anonymous_name </code> for each topic or reply and a similar method could be used for this.</em><br />
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Related: <a class="new ticket" href="/ticket/3116" title="#3116: defect (bug): Deleting a user does not delete the topics (new)">#3116</a> Deleting a user does not delete the topics<br />
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